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Leadership Testimony
Date: November 09, 2010Type: Article
Closing the Tech Gap
Date: July 14, 2010Type: Blog
What if senior management in an Agency – or anyone in the public – could identify and monitor the performance of IT projects just as easily as they could monitor the stock market or baseball scores? That’s what the IT dashboard...
Closing the IT Gap
Date: June 15, 2010Type: Blog
The Federal Government lacks many of the technological capabilities that are commonplace in the private sector and our everyday lives. This IT gap significantly impacts our ability to improve the efficiency of government and deliver better services to the American people.
Personal Identity Verification Interoperability for Non-Federal Issuers
Date: May 05, 2009Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
As the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) initiative progresses, it is garnering a great deal of interest from parties external to the Federal government. These non-federal organizations want to issue identity cards that are (a) technically interoperable with Federal government PIV systems, and...
Responsibilities and Information and Technology Governance at Leading Private Sector Companies
Date: September 09, 2005Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
Recognizing the importance of the CIO position, congressional requesters asked GAO to conduct two reviews. The first, reported in July 2004, discussed the extent to which federal CIOs had responsibility for 12 functional areas that GAO had identified as either required by statute or critical to...
IT Exchange Program Summary
Date: August 16, 2005Type: Doc (Microsoft Word is required to view this file)
The purpose of the IT Exchange Program is to allow exceptional individuals from the federal information technology (IT) workforce and exceptional individuals from the private sector IT workforce to participate in an exchange program which will enable both sides to share rather than compete for...
IT Exchange Program Regulation
Date: August 15, 2005Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to implement provisions contained in the E-Government Act of 2002. This law authorizes the temporary detail of employees in the field of information technology (IT) management from the Federal Government to private sector...
Information Technology Training: Practices of Leading Private-Sector Companies, March 2003
Date: March 20, 2003Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
Examining private-sector workforce training practices for both IT and non-IT professionals, this 68 page report provides a view of what leading private-sector organizations are doing in the IT training area. GAO found 22 existing and emerging practices used by leading companies to implement...
Best Practices Committee E-Training White Paper
Date: December 30, 2002Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
Document examines the key challenges that OPM and other Government leaders are confronting in E-Training and leverages best practices from commercial and Government initiatives to produce findings and conclusions for implementing this practice across Government. E-Training includes...
Electronic Government: Selection and Implementation of the Office of Management and Budget's 24 Initiatives, November 2002
Date: December 20, 2002Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
This 70 page report from 2002, reviews best practices for preparing IT business cases developed by leading government, academic, and private sector organizations. It provides the groups comparison of the initial business cases used in the selection of the 24 initiatives with the best practices and...
Executive Guide: Maximizing the Success of Chief Information Officers: Learning from Leading Organizations. February 2001
Date: February 01, 2001Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
This 70 page report addresses Federal CIOs responsibilities with parallels in the private sector, comparing leading private sector practices and Federal CIO management practices. It provides a review of the Federal Information Management Reform, fundamental principles, the Federal CIO environment,...
Treasury Dept CIO Testimony before House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, March 24, 2000
Date: March 24, 2000Type: Html (A Web browser is required to view this file)
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer for the Treasury Departments message as prepared for delivery covering the role of the Chief Information Officer in the public and private sectors. Topics included The Evolution of the CIO in the Public Sector,...
